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HICKETY-HACKETY—HIDE AND SEEK |
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H ickety-hackety
The game of Hop-scotch, played with a piece of tile, which has to be kicked by the player with the foot on which he hops over lines into various squares marked on the ground.—Somersetshire (Elworthy's Dialect).
See "Hop-scotch."
Hick, Step, and Jump
The game of " Hop, step, and jump."—Somerset (Holloway's Diet, of Provincialisms).
See "Half-Hammer."
Hide and Seek (i)
A-writer in Blackwood's Magazine, August 1821, p. 36, mentions this as a summer game. It was called " Ho, spy ! " the words which are called out by those boys who have hidden. He says the watchword of M Hide and seek " was " hidee," and gives as the rhyme used when playing—
Keep in, keep in, wherever you be, The greedy gled's seeking ye. This rhyme is also given by Chambers (Popular Rhymes, p. 122). Halliwell gives the rhyme as—
Hitty titty indoors, Hitty titty out, You touch Hitty titty, And Hitty titty will bite you.
—Nursery Rhymes, p. 213.
At Ashford-in-the-Water the words used were— One a bin, two a bin, three a bin, four, Five a bin, six a bin, seven, gie o'er; A bunch of pins, come prick my shins, A loaf brown bread, come knock me down.
I'm coming ! —Reliquary, viii. 57.
The words are said by the one who has to find the person hidden.
In Scotland the game is called " Hospy," and is played by boys only, and it can be played only in a village or hamlet in which there is the means of hiding. A Spy is chosen, and a |
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